New Clause 1
Greater London Authority Bill
4:00 pm
Tom Brake (Shadow Minister, Department for Communities and Local Government; Carshalton and Wallington, Liberal Democrat)
I have listened carefully to the Minister. In theory, I am sure that on these Benches we would not want to be prescriptive in setting out how the Mayor should conduct his consultation, what publicity he should give to it, how he should make publicly available the information about representations he received, and why he rejected them. Indeed, we had a debate earlier today about how we wanted to be flexible in giving the Mayor scope to develop his own strategy in relation to climate change. The difference here is that the Mayor has a track record of disregarding the responses to consultation. Therefore, in spite of the Minister’s warm words—
Stephen Pound rose—